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If we’re using votes to rank content then downvotes are redundant because now you have to upvote „right” stuff and downvote „wrong” stuff. Assuming everyone is waging the same kind of information warfare then downvotes won’t anything… but we’re not. Those that downvote willy nilly just want to have more say in things than others who don’t have energy to religiously clean website from „wrong” content. You’re not responsible for safeguarding users from „wrong” content unless you’re reporting rule breaking one. If you don’t like what’s being said but it doesn’t break rules then reply and explain why is it wrong, let others upvote if they agree.

Tildes solved this already. They have regular upvotes and they have labels for offtopic/noise/malice. Being able to use labels is reserved to users with good standing and can be applied once only. Noise downranks things without removing them, malice is essentially same as reporting them. Notably, there is no label for „wrong”.

Valve is exempt from this for some reason however. It’s more like stereotypical basement dwellers treat this like a game where you win by accumulating more imaginary internet points. This kind of tribal behaviour is why threadiverse seems to be failing but at least some people get to feel superior to others in the meantime.

Reddit is astroturfed to hell, I prefer my posts to come from humans rather than companies trying to game system for financial benefit.

This is unorthodox to neoliberals only. The alternatives are:

• let your only hardware manufacturer of this scale die - not great for national security
• bail out with no strings attached - another transfer of public wealth to shareholders

Amazing that we've gone from bosom buddies in Alaska to veiled nuclear threats in exactly one week. The Donald Trump era of U.S.–Russia diplomacy is a wild fucking ride.

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinrothrock.me/post/3lwzcke3xfk2b

IIRC immobilisers aren’t mandatory in the US, hence their recent troubles with cars being hijacked using silliest methods possible.

Started to watch and I just can’t agree on how the premise is being made. Apple falling behind in the middle of an AI bubble should be a consideration for starters. Will the gains that other companies made hold up when push comes to shove? Those less exposed (aka less successful) are better positioned to weather the storm.

Done

Article doesn’t mention Wine even once. Great PR work from Valve.

They are now pretending that what they have created is something at the verge of becoming sentient and with dignity to protect.